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Delivery Lead at Atomic Object. Determined to help you envision, build, and launch the best possible product, on-time and on-budget. Passionate practitioner of human-centered design, and a firm believer in whole-team collaboration.

Over the past several years, agile software teams have recognized the necessity of welcoming designers into their ranks. At the same time, organizations throughout the industry have struggled with and offered different perspectives on the “best way” for designers and developers to work together on agile teams. Read more on Some Design Up Front: Why ‘Sprint Zero’ is Not Enough…

Atomic is adding a new type of maker called the Delivery Lead to our lineup. Recently, we’ve recognized ways to enhance the experience of our clients and teams and build better software in the process. The Delivery Lead position is the result of more than a year’s worth of experimentation in this area. As one of the first to hold that position at Atomic Object, I’d like to introduce the Delivery Lead role and share the context for how we got here.Read more on The Delivery Lead: A New Type of Maker…

I love sleep. I also love data. Recently, I was in the process of doing some competitive analysis for the design of some upcoming sleep tracking features in our customer Neurometrix’s Quell mobile app, and I came across Hello’s Sense sleep tracker. I was intrigued. This is my Sense sleep tracker review after using for almost four months.

Hello, friends. If you’ve come to Atomic Spin for a bit of genius advice about Ember.js or for our latest thoughts on product design, agile, or software teams, this post will be a bit different from what you’re expecting. However, I promise it’s equally useful.

I want to share something important that has recently taken on new meaning for me and begun to inform my work in profound ways. Settle in, it’s about to get real in here.Read more on On Work and Compassion…

It’s a widely accepted truth that accessibility on the web is important. Of course, everybody should have equal access to technology! However, when it comes down to it and project timelines and budgets are at stake, it can be more difficult to put this belief into practice.

On June 13-14, 2015, people from across the globe came together for the Balanced Team 2015 Summit in Grand Rapids. It was a weekend of conversation around multi-disciplinary collaboration in the software industry and beyond. Some themes that emerged from the presentations and surrounding conversations include: